Posted by poldy on 12/23/83 11:27

In article <Xns96DB85A811F46stile@129.250.170.91>,
Howard <stile99@email.com> wrote:

> You seem to be under the impression every individual disc in the world will
> have an individual key. I, however, highly doubt it. And even if this
> were the case, then you only need to crack that key once.
>
> Whatever stupid scheme the studios puke up, the discs will be on the
> streets of China within minutes of release. Period. Anyone who thinks
> this isn't possible clearly hasn't been paying attention.

The keys are supposedly revokable and renewable. That isn't to say they
can't be hacked but rather that they've obviously thought about past
copy-protection schemes which failed. BTW, MS and other tech companies
are very involved in putting together this scheme, not just the studios.

As for Chinese piracy, supposedly for Blu-Ray, the discs will have to
have a BD-ROM mark of some kind. Plus the prohibitive costs of Blu-Ray
replication may discourage the Chinese pirates, at least initially.

HD-DVD on the other hand touts how cheaply production lines could be
upgraded from DVD production lines.

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